Event

Thursday, April 3, 2025

3.30 Opening Roundtable
"Theorizing Emotions - Affect and the Political* Rita Copeland (Penn)
Deven Patel (Penn)
Donovan Schaefer (Penn)

4.30 Session I
Justin Steinberg (Chicago), "It's Okay to Cry: Passion and Counter-Passion in Inferno 20"
Respondent: Francesco Marco Aresu (Penn)

Friday, April 4, 2025

10.00 Session 2
Caroline Batten (Penn), "Teary Eyes, Swollen Hearts: Politicized Outbursts of Emotion in Old Norse Family Sagas*
Daisy Delogu (Chicago), "Forging Aftective (and Political Communities in Late Medieval France and Burgundy"
Moderator: Ada Kuskowski (Penn)
1.00 Session 3
Jessica Rosenfeld (Wash U), "Christine de Pizan's Theory of Justice"
Nicole Hochner (HUJI), "Dissonance and Excess in Late Medieval Thought®
Moderator: Scott Francis (Penn)

3.00 Session 4
Gur Zak (HUJI) "Joseph's Pardon: Anger and Forgiveness in Boccaccio's Decameron"
Eugenio Refini (NYU), "Solomon's Passions (or Lack thereof)"
Moderator: Eva Del Soldato (Penn)

4.45 Closing Roundtable